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What are cultural resources?

A cultural resource can be anything that facilitates a person's sense of cultural belonging and identity.  Some examples are:

• Historic sites (logging era, homesteads, CCC camps)
  

• Prehistoric sites (Pre-European contact sites)
  

• Stories, Legends, Folklore
  

• Historic Documents
  

• Oral Histories
  

• Culturally Important Landscapes
  

• Traditional Cultural Properties (sugar camps, wild rice camps, hunting camps, spiritual sites)
  

• Culturally Important Natural Resources (moose, deer, wild rice, medicinal plants)
  

Public lands within the 1854 Ceded Territory are subject to federal and state laws protecting cultural resources.  Tribes have a special government to government relationship with these land holders.  Bands have a right to consult with government agencies to ensure that cultural sites are protected.

If you have any questions or would like to get involved in the preservation of cultural resources, please contact:

David Woodward

Cultural Resource Specialist

1854 Treaty Authority

Email: dwoodward@1854treatyauthority.org

Phone: 218-722-8907 or 1-800-775-8799

position funded by a grant from the Administration for Native Americans

Recent Field Projects

The 1854 Treaty Authority has become involved in a variety of cultural resource field projects.  For project descriptions and updates, please click here.

canoe on lake shore - circa 1925

(courtesy of MN Historical Society)

sugar camp - circa 1925

(courtesy of MN Historical Society)

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The 1854 Treaty Authority has been working to:

• compile information on cultural resources within the 1854 Ceded Territory
  

• assist in consultation with other agencies to ensure tribal concerns are addressed
  

• cooperate in and complete field projects